Hello friends, I spent the 4th of July weekend in Oxford for Alice Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the boat trip Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) took with the Liddell family in which he first told a version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Although only officially observed since 2007, it's now an established tradition in Oxford. I went to an author event at the Story Museum and a guided walk around Christ Church Meadows. There was also time to visit the Oxfam Superstore in Cowley and Blackwell's across from the Old Bodleian Library. An exhibit on at the Weston Library right now features original sketches by Jackie Morris and poems by Robert Macfarlane from their latest Book of Birds. And I got to see Goblin Band in concert again, this time with Angeline Morrison!
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| Painted roses at Oxford Botanical Garden |
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| A part of Oxford's medieval wall |
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| Bridge of Sighs |
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| River Thames |
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| Christ Church Meadow |
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| The Story Museum |
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| Alice with a Why by Anna James |
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| Goblin Band's latest single, Clyde Water/Go From My Window |
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| Angeline Morrison performed songs from The Sorrow Songs and Ophelia |
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